1)
What signs can forewarn
friends, relatives, and parents about suicide?

2)
What category of people
commits suicide? Are there any differences between each group?

3)
When does suicide
occur?

4)
What is suicide in
people of all ages?

5)
Is suicide the way-out
of all the problems?

Summing Up: Terms and Concepts to
Remember

Amnesia Loss of memory. Psychogenic amnesia, a
dissociative disorder, is selective memory loss often brought on by
extreme stress.

Antisocial
personality A
personality disorder in which the person (usually a male) exhibits a lack of
conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive
and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Fugue A dissociative disorder in which
amnesia is accompanied by physical flight from one’s home and identity.

Hypochondriasis
A somatoform disorder in
which a person misinterests normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease.

Major
depression A mood
disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more
weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness and diminished interest or
pleasure in most activities.

Schizophrenia A group of psychotic disorders
characterized by disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions and inappropriate
emotions and actions.

Somatoform
disorder Psychological
disorder in which the symptoms take somatic (bodily) form without apparent
physical cause.

Unit 4

Psychological Disorders and Their
Therapy

Read and translate
the text.

The history of our
attempts to treat psychological disorders reveals how mystifying and
intractable we have found these problems to be. In other realms of science our
record of progress is impressive; in the 2 200 years since Eratosthenes
correctly estimated the earth’s circumference, we have charted the heavens,
explored the solar system, reconstructed the basis history of life on earth,
cracked the genetic code, and eliminated or found cures for all sorts of
diseases.